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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity. — Salman Rushdie

Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality. — Theodor W. Adorno

I'm more authoritarian with the orchestras than I used to be. You need to hold your ground, I've noticed, or you'll be swept aside. — Laurence Equilbey

Authoritarian systems evolve. Authoritarianism in the Internet Age is not your old Cold War authoritarianism. — Rebecca MacKinnon

This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment. — Kate Millett

The hallmark of an authoritarian idiot is yelling TERRORIST-LOVER! at anyone questioning the definition of Terrorist. — Glenn Greenwald

Obama is a statist. He's an authoritarian. He doesn't want to govern; he wants to rule. — Rush Limbaugh

Anti-digital mindsets are those "status quo" types of thinking, authoritarian attitude, and bureaucratic decision-making. — Pearl Zhu

The hope in the hearts of millions of national socialists can be fulfilled only by an authoritarian government. — Franz Von Papen

For all their faults, right-wing authoritarian regimes more easily accept democratic reforms than left-wing totalitarian states. — Jeane Kirkpatrick

Even more than comparing society to a family, comparing it to a body makes an authoritarian ordering of society seem inevitable, immutable. — Susan Sontag

How could one want an equalitarian and free society to issue from an authoritarian organisation? It is impossible. — James Guillaume

No authoritarian leader cedes power easily or turns it over to bodies he cannot control. — Stephen Kinzer

For me, religion is serious business - a farrago of authoritarian nonsense, misogyny and humble pie, the eternal enemy of human happiness and freedom. — Katha Pollitt

The thread of culture that runs through the entire history of punk is also a dedication to challenging the authoritarian. — Greg Graffin

You really don't create an authoritarian society unless you control the personal choices including the sexual choices of the people. — Hugh Hefner

As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ever meet. — Niall Ferguson

There's a line in the picture where he (Johnny - The Wild One) snarls, 'Nobody tells me what to do.' That's exactly how I've felt all my life. — Marlon Brando

Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes. — G. Willow Wilson

It is noteworthy that at a time when every religious sanction of authority has vanished, we live in a very authoritarian epoch. — Nikolai A. Berdyaev

Once people sense their own power, no authoritarian government can stand against the people who are determined to be free. — Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

My anti-authoritarian instincts let me directly to criminal defense work. — Lynne Stewart

Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy. — Cory Doctorow

Sexually awakened women, affirmed and recognized as such, would mean the complete collapse of the authoritarian ideology — Wilhelm Reich

In its current form, globalization cannot be sustained. Democratic societies will not support it. Authoritarian leaders will fear to impose it. — John Sweeney

Asia's governments come in two broad varieties: young, fragile democracies - and older, fragile authoritarian regimes. — Paul Samuelson

I'm a good authoritarian figure; I don't know why. 'Can you be a cop?' Sure. 'Can you be a Marine?' Absolutely. Well, at least in a movie. — Henry Rollins

Let me clarify this very definitely. This is not an authoritarian organization. — L. Ron Hubbard

As every authoritarian regime knows, association can be a dangerous thing. From discussion it is only a few steps to action ... — Ann Scott

The working class had imposed upon them a sterile and authoritarian educational system which mirrored the ethos of the corporate workplace. — Anthony M. Platt

Free nations of the world cannot allow Taiwan, a beacon of democracy, to be subdued by an authoritarian China. — Nick Lampson

Today's Catholic church seems to reward authoritarian personalities who are clearly ill, violent, sexually obsessed and unable to remember the past. — Matthew Fox

Democracy is essentially anti-authoritarian
that is, it not only demands the right but imposes the responsibility of thinking for ourselves. — John Dryden

There is an authoritarian strain in all of Leftism
because the bigger the government, the more it controls other peoples' lives — Dennis Prager

Reality discipline steers a course between an authoritarian style and a permissive style, giving kids some choices but also holding them accountable. — Kevin Leman

The Egyptian experience suggests that social media can greatly accelerate the death of already dying authoritarian regimes. — Evgeny Morozov

I was slight in frame and lacked the instant authoritarian standing that a Winchester did. — Jon Bassoff

Nonviolent campaigns against authoritarian regimes are twice as likely to succeed as violent ones. — Anonymous

Sometimes it's easier for people who are in authority to be authoritarian, because people know where you stand. — Meryl Streep

Irony and hip ennui are extremely authoritarian. — David Foster Wallace

The desire to be on sure ground is the relict of an authoritarian frame of mind. — Ernst Tugendhat

Question authority... Then ignore it! — Joseph Barjack

China is building a model for how an authoritarian government can survive the Internet. — Rebecca MacKinnon

Catholic school is similar to apartheid in that it's ruthlessly authoritarian, and its authority rests on a bunch of rules that don't make any sense. — Trevor Noah

Why do economists fall in love with authoritarian governments? — Yasheng Huang

The true religion is monastic, ascetic, authoritarian, hierarchical. — Nicolas Gomez Davila

With Taiwan, it took about 40 years to go from an authoritarian to a democratic society. — Ma Ying-jeou

You find the most outrageous deviants in the countries with the most authoritarian systems. — Amelie Nothomb

In every country today, there is politics. It may be authoritarian politics, but there is politics. — Hillary Clinton

Those who abhors democracy would rarely immigrate to an authoritarian state if they have to. — Joe Chung

Religiosity that is hostile to sex is the product of authoritarian society. — Wilhelm Reich

We have created stability, which is a necessary condition for development. But I can't call this system authoritarian. — Vladimir Putin

As a rule children of tough and imperious parents sticking to authoritarian method of upbringing have a victim complex — Sunday Adelaja

Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will. — Ludwig Von Mises

My message is simple - freedom works a lot better than the authoritarian style of government. — Ron Paul

The individual act of obedience is the cornerstone not only of the strength of authoritarian society but also of its weakness. — Robert Anton Wilson

Comics can be pernicious, fascist propaganda or anti-authoritarian. The ones that shaped me were particularly anti-authoritarian. — Art Spiegelman

A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repressive and murderous society. — Edward Abbey

It is true that authoritarian governments increasingly see the Internet as a threat in part because they see the U.S. government behind the Internet. — Evgeny Morozov

I was essentially trained by World War II vets who combined a progressive view of life with a deep distrust of anything authoritarian. — Sander Levin

To make no decision in regard to the growth of authoritarian government is already a decision for it. — Francis A. Schaeffer